History of Art and Architecture

Past Events

Tue
Apr
23
2024

Dissertation Defense: Paula Kupfer

Paula Kupfer will defend "Marc Ferrez’s Landscapes of Intervention: Photography, Ecology, and Enslavement in Imperial Brazil" 

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Wed
Apr
10
2024

Comfort With Rage: A Conversation

Join the UAG for a special conversation with writer, Angie Cruz, visual artist, Laylah Ali and poet, Diana Khoi Nguyen. 

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Wed
Apr
10
2024

Serigrafía en el barrio: The Royal Chicano Air Force’s Activist Education

Graduate student Janina Lopez will present this week's colloquium 

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Tue
Apr
09
2024

Squatting Art: Communicative Politics for the Commons"

Professor Allan Antliff, Canada Research Chair in Art History at the University of Victoria will present a lecture from his current book project. 

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Fri
Apr
05
2024

HAAARCH!!!

HAAARCH!!! is an annual showcase of undergraduate accomplishments which will take place in person at Frick Fine Arts on Friday, April 5

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Wed
Apr
03
2024

The Urban Heritage of Homesickness: Reconstructing Seventeenth-Century Dutch Batavia’s Chinese Hospice

Visiting Lecturer Sim Hinman Wan will present this week's colloquium 

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Wed
Mar
27
2024

"Papered Leps" & Incidental Archives at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History

Deirdre Smith will present this week's colloquium on a collection of insects folded in scraps of paper focusing on the avenues of research available by close examination of the paper housing. 

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Mon
Mar
25
2024

The Matter of Families: Exhibiting African Art and Kinship in Dakar, 1966

Dr. Lauren Taylor, Assistant Professor of Art History at Penn State University, will present a talk on the first exhibition at the Musée Dynamique in Senegal. 

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Mon
Mar
25
2024

Dissertation Defense: Jacob Eisensmith

Jacob Eisensmith Dissertation Defense: "Anxieties and Influences: Italian Cultural Entanglements with ethnic Ottoman Empire, 1400-1600". 

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Fri
Mar
22
2024

Ruin and Reparation: (Dis)Repair in Art and Architectural History

Graduate Symposium hosted by the History of Art and Architecture Department at the University of Pittsburgh

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